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Cyprus has emerged as the standout destination in a British ranking of European autumn breaks, with Israeli news website Walla emphasising the island’s warm weather, limited rainfall and short flying time from Israel.

Britain’s competition watchdog on Wednesday put forward proposals to give Google Android and Chrome users greater ‌choice and control over the search services they use, including AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity.

Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.

US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington on Wednesday for a three-day visit that will test relations between the superpowers as tensions simmer over trade, technology, Taiwan and Iran.

The AI Cyprus Expo will return to Limassol in April of next year, with its organisers aiming to turn the event into a regional platform for applied artificial intelligence and business collaboration across the Eastern Mediterranean.

Growth in British business activity cooled this month and inflation pressure built, a survey showed on Wednesday, an awkward backdrop for finance minister John Healey ahead of his first budget next month.

Festivals Already happening at NiMAC, in Nicosia, is the latest edition of Queer Wave 2026, which brings film screenings, discussions, parties and installations to the heart of the city, giving the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community a space.

Companies betting AI devices will usher in a post-smartphone era are fueling privacy fears around the globe that could slow adoption of the emerging technology.

Europe’s economy is showing unexpected ‌signs of health even as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine drive up energy costs for firms and households, key business surveys showed on Wednesday.

As greenhouse gas emissions were decreasing across Europe, in Cyprus they increased by 67.1 per cent between 1990 and 2024, while 13 per cent of the island’s land area was affected by drought in 2024, Eurostat said on Wednesday.

High prices, understandably, have been the main public issue in the last eight months.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Moscow at the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine would strike back and make the coming winter deeply painful for Russia, if the two sides cannot agree a truce on energy attacks before the cold sets in.

US officials in Jerusalem and Washington drafted a statement in early September attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi agreed on Wednesday to a gradual transfer of a Turkish military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad, alongside joint efforts to remove banned armed groups from the Sinjar region.

Greek diplomatic sources accused Turkey on Wednesday of “systematic distortion of history,” after the Turkish foreign ministry marked the anniversary of the siege of Tripolitsa with a social media post describing “systematic massacres” of the Muslim popul…

US ultra-low-sulfur diesel futures HOc1 fell 4% on Wednesday after Politico reported that the White House is preparing a plan to ban diesel exports for 90 days, which the Trump Administration denied.

President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace unveiled a $2.45 billion plan on Wednesday to begin rebuilding Gaza, but officials acknowledged it faces an uncertain future as Israel and Hamas remain at odds over terms of a US-backed ceasefire.

Ukraine and Russia have both voiced an interest in a limited ceasefire involving grain and energy-related targets, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York.

Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on Wednesday after Israel’s military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead of the annual olive harvest, normally a source of joy for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

A prosecution witness in the Avakoum monastery fraud trial described on Wednesday how footage from a monastery security camera showing one of the defendants apparently faking a religious trance convinced him to leave the community for good.

Former Disy leader Averof Neofytou said on Wednesday that he will stand for president again if there is no positive movement on the Cyprus problem during talks in New York this weekend.

The planned central prisons at Ayios Sozomenos will be situated well away from the village’s archaeological remains, the justice ministry assured on Tuesday, after a meeting between Justice Minister Costas Fitiris and Deputy Culture Minister Clea Hadjiste…

Argentina’s President Javier Milei on Wednesday criticised the United Nations for looking “the other way” amid escalating tensions with Britain over oil exploration around the Falkland Islands, a largely self-governing British overseas territory whose sov…

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “hypocrisy of the highest form” as he addressed the United Nations general assembly in New York.

Police and fire service coverage in Limassol’s wine villages came under discussion on Wednesday, with local leaders calling for more officers and changes to the way communities are divided between police districts.

Manchester United reported their seventh straight annual loss on Wednesday as costs related to player acquisitions and the sacking of former head coach Ruben Amorim this year pushed them deeper into the red.

The European Union faced a growing backlash on Wednesday for lifting sanctions on two Russian billionaires, with some of its members saying the move undermined a pillar of support for Ukraine’s war effort and that it signalled the bloc would bow to blackm…

October will soon arrive with a rather rock attitude as a week-long event takes festival-goers and rock lovers to the seaside town of Protaras, extending its busy season a little longer.

Police evicted an 87-year-old woman on Wednesday from her Madrid home of more than seven decades despite hundreds of people protesting outside and the government criticising the eviction order, in a dramatic new flashpoint of Spain’s housing crisis.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said trust in world football had not been restored following the collapse of FIFA’s controversial private-investment plan, in his first public comments since FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered a review of the governi…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech at the UN on Wednesday that Tehran would never surrender to the US but still believes in diplomacy, a day after President Donald Trump used the same forum to threaten to “annihilate” Iran.

Direct Democracy leader Fidias Panayiotou is taking Data Protection Commissioner Maria Christofidou to the administrative court, disputing a €6,000 fine imposed over his handling of the Agora platform.

News outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico will ask a federal judge on Wednesday to immediately restore their access to the White House after President Donald Trump banned them in one of his most dramatic clashes with the media to date.

For the first time, the public can explore art and antiquities at the presidential palace through a new guided visit programme, it was announced on Wednesday.

Ryanair group CEO Michael O’Leary said on Wednesday the airline “will not levy a fuel surcharge” despite higher jet fuel prices, but predicted rivals will do so next summer and forecast more European consolidation as a result of the elevated costs.

Four defendants in the golden passport case that includes former transport minister Marios Demetriades denied 25 new charges on Tuesday.

Presidential Commissioner Marios Hartsiotis has been assigned a police guard from tomorrow, a day after the justice ministry stripped police protection from three former House presidents and two former first ladies.

A group of poachers in Androlykou illegally hunts hares on an almost nightly basis despite repeatedly being reported, the head of the Game and Fauna Service, Pantelis Hadjiyerou, told the House environment committee on Tuesday.

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Abstract art has become the defining visual statement in Mediterranean homes, replacing ornamental tradition with bold, expressive compositions that feel entirely at ease against whitewashed walls and sun-drenched terraces.

Nicosia-based Turkish Cypriot football club Cetinkaya on Wednesday vowed to return to the Cyprus Football Association, as it marked the 92nd anniversary of the association’s founding, at the end of a turbulent summer for intercommunal relations on the iss…

A committee representing shopkeepers and residents in old Nicosia demanded on Wednesday that Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos resign, hours after he told a Disy delegation that the municipality has drawn up proposals to revitalise Makarios Avenue.

The government’s planned reforms to the pension system will ensure that it remains viable for “40 or 50 years”, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Wednesday, as he addressed members of Akel.

Ukrainian staff sergeant Vitalii Tomchyshak believes he knows how to beat Russia on the battlefield: empower frontline leaders such as himself to make critical decisions.

The defence ministry has described ready-made army meals found at temperatures below food safety requirements as an “isolated case”, as it responded to a series of findings by the Audit Office over the feeding of National Guard soldiers.

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace will unveil a six-month, $2.45 billion recovery plan for Gaza at a meeting of its members on Wednesday, Axios reported.

Spanish driver Fernando Alonso on Wednesday called on Formula One to make races more fun next year, saying many of the current circuits had lost their traditional character.

The first shuttle talks between the United States and Iran for months raised hopes on Wednesday that the adversaries could make some progress towards ending the Middle East war, although neither side spelled out any change in their positions.

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